At Mary's Source

Yvonne Trubert

Description

At Mary's Source is the fifth volume of the interviews given by Yvonne Trubert to the Book of Invitation to Life. Through themes such as Maternity, Education, Wisdom and Mary, the mother of Christ, Yvonne Trubert proposes consecrated reflection to each one of these subjects, going from the most mundane preoccupation to the subtlest questions about the place of humanity in the cosmos. Above all, two subjects predominate : the power of love and the divine presence. Yvonnes Trubert invites each living being to understand that, « everyone must be conscious that he or she is loved, that he or she has the right to live, and that he or she has an extraordinary past and a fabulous future. »

Sujets

• Major religious groups
• Religion
• Spiritualité

Informations

• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9782140106361
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

At Mary’s Source constitutes the Ifth volume of the interviews given

the eponymous French association. Through themes such as Maternity, Education, Wisdom and Mary, the mother of Christ and of humanity, Yvonne Trubert proposes consecrated reLection to each one of these subjects, going from the most mundane of our preoccupations to the subtlest questions about the place of humanity in the cosmos. Above all, two subjects predominate: the power of love and the divine presence. These chronicles are addressed to those who are on a quest for the absolute and those who undertake this incredible journey, which allows us to reestablish the link once severed between God and His children. The message is not new and its splendor is not lost, nor is its urgency. Yvonne Trubert invites each living being to understand that, “everyone must be conscious that he

extraordinary past and a fabulous future.”

Yvonne Trubert

Yvonne Trubert At Mary’s Source

Chronicles of Invitation to Life Volume 5

At Mary’s Source

Yvonne Trubert

At Mary’s Source Chronicles of Invitation to Life Volume 5

E DITOR :A LBERTINE G ENTOU T RANSLATION :I SABEL C USTER E DWARDS Recorded between 1984 and 1995 for the bulletin of the association Invitation to Life,The Book of IVI, these chronicles are extracts from interviews done by the Writing Mission and four French journalists: Marie Mignon Gardet, Marie d’Hennezel-Whitechurch, Marie-Hélène M. et Albertine Gentou. Bibliography Gentou, Albertine and Mignon-Gardet, Marie, comps and eds. Invited to Live. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007. C OVER PHOTOGRAPH : © K ATHERINE B RINDEAU P HOTOGRAPH OF Y VONNE T RUBERT : © P RISCA L ÉONELLI At Mary’s Source © L’Harmattan, 2018 5-7, rue de l’Ecole-Polytechnique, 75005 Paris http://www.editions-harmattan.fr ISBN : 978-2-343-16307-9 EAN : 9782343163079

TABLE OF CONTENTS Appendix: Chronicles of an Invitation to Life 6 Foreword by Doctor Jean Kachaner 7 About IVI 11 From the Journal of Invitation to life: No. 80 M ATERNITY  17 No. 81 E DUCATING C HILDREN  32 No. 82 T RIALS  41 No. 83 B EAUTY  52 No. 84 W ISDOM  66 No. 85 T HE F OUR E LEMENTS  74 No. 86 M ATTER AND E NERGY  87 No. 87 H UMOR  105 No. 21 & 88 A T M ARY ’ S S OURCE  110

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CHRONICLES OF AN INVITATION TO LIFE

OF YVONNE TRUBERT Volume 1: The Energy of Love, L'Harmattan, 2008 Books IVI (March 1986 - November 1987) No. 26 IVI TODAY AND TOMORROW No. 27 THE PASSION OF CHRIST No. 28 WE ARE ALL ARTISTS No. 29 MONEY AND CORRUPTION No. 30 FAMILY AND CELIBACY No. 32 TRANSPARENCY No. 33 CHRISTMAS, THE FEAST OF LOVE No. 34 MISSIONARIES / No. 36 TO BE FREE No. 37 SPIRITUAL LIFE / No. 39 AN OFFERING TO GOD No. 41/42 PRAYER Volume 2: The Perfect Balance, L'Harmattan, 2008 Books IVI (November 1987 - November 1988) No. 42 THE ERA OF LOVE / No. 43 YOUTH No. 44 FRANCE, THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE CHURCH No. 45 LEARN TO REGENERATE YOURSELF No. 47 NATURE / No. 48 A NEW SOCIETY No. 51 THE QUEST OF THE GRAIL / No. 52 ALL SAINTS No. 53 MASCULINE & FEMININE Volume 3: Divine Substance, L'Harmattan, 2009 IVI books (January 1989 - March 1990) No. 54 ALCOHOL, DRUGS, DEPRESSION No. 55 UNIVERSAL SYMBIOSIS // No. 56 HONESTY / No. 59 ADOLESCENCE //No. 63 SILENCE / No. 64 HARMONIZATION // No. 65 THE TESTIMONY / No. 66 THE COUPLE Volume 4: Toward the One Who Is, L'Harmattan, 2012 Books IVI (April 1990 - June 1991) No. 67 THE PILGRIMAGE - No. 68 HEALTH No. 69 VIBRATIONS - No. 70 WATER No. 75 THE SPIRIT AND THE LAW // No. 76 THE LAST SUPPER – No. 77 THE GIFT OF SELF, Volunteering No. 78 INNER PEACE - No. 79 GROUP AND TRIADS

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Preface Thirty years ago, somewhere in the West, a woman stood up and spoke up. For the first time or a second time? It does not matter. She spoke, the Verb, many words. And she was basically saying this: "I love you. Love one another as I love you and will always love you." The message is not new, but it has not lost its splendor nor, alas, have we lost our necessity for it in our current world. We will read at the end of this collection how the acts followed the words and how Invitation to Life was born. I met Yvonne Trubert much later, a few years ago, in a private meeting at her home. We talked about everything: about life, about my life, about medicine - of course - about children and their ill-made hearts that I have probed, accompanied and cared for so long. We spoke about Jesus, her God in the gospel and about Jesus, my brother in religion. From this meeting, I remember two strong images: more than just a woman, a body dazzling with light; more than a light, a smile, eyes, lips, the whole face expressing happiness, more than happiness, the happiness of loving, and I felt loved. All the power of Yvonne is in this faculty, which we find in her discourses and, towards the end of this book, in this magnificent sentence: "Everyone must realize that he is loved, that he has the right to live, to have an extraordinary past and a fabulous future." I kept this light and smile and love in my soul and watched IVI, its women and men who came from everywhere, often in pain, to speak, to be listened to, to be loved, to pray together, to seek peace, to regain the joy of life and a fabulous future. I saw and listened to Yvonne many times, in public this time, on a grandstand or on a chair, among her nearest and dearest, in houses or under a tree in a meadow.

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She relates as an inspired speaker on everyday themes, coming and going with inspiration, coming back to the red thread, no, to the white thread, which, she says, connects her to God in order to deliver His endlessly repeated beautiful message of love. There is nothing brilliant in her speech, and I sometimes found her ineloquent, but it is the language of the heart, of a simple heart and loyal to her unshakeable faith in the values of life through the Christian heritage. It was rare that she did not move me to tears. These speeches were recorded and these recordings are now transcribed in a series of chronological volumes. Here is the fifth. Yvonne asked me to preface it and I received this request as a pledge of love that touches me deeply. It is therefore the joy that animates me to write these lines and yet I have neither much experience of this exercise, nor the slightest taste for hagiography and even less for complacency. I am very comfortable saying what I liked or disliked, was moved or surprised by in reading these texts. Let us be clear: I do not open any debate or wish to engage in any exegesis, but I would, in all humility, and because I had the privilege of reading this book before you, point out the more beautiful passages. Those who think of finding a structured literary work here may be disappointed. I repeat, these texts were not written by their author but told to an audience, around a central theme adorned, through inspiration, with many digressions that all have their importance when they seem to lead you down an unknown path. These detours will always come back to the point and, ultimately, it only matters somewhat. In the same way, the chronological order of the chapters does not matter anymore and my advice is to start by reading the last chapter, At Mary’s source, which tells the marvelous story of this Jewish woman so simple and so similar to women of her country and of her time but who is distinguished by a single word and this word, this yes that responds to an incredible

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proposal, as magnificent as formidable, that will change the future of the world. The poet had already declared it: woman is the future of man. I loved it so much that Yvonne glorifies Mary's destiny in a story full of simplicity and devotion, that she equates this Mother with the Holy Spirit, who is also called Paraclete, whom she proposes "no act of faith nobler than to trust this mother who protects not only the earth, but also all of its children." Lastly, she gives her the place the Catholic liturgy quibbles over and which the Reformation denies her. Read and re-read this text and abandon yourself to honoring it on your knees in an interminable prayer: "Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed are you among all women..." There are also many beautiful things aboutMaternity, such as the child who, with the help of God, chooses the home where he will be born and grow, or the importance of the role of the father on the development of the fetus. There is a great deal of good sense and love in her views onChildren's Education where the focus is on the quality of the environment, which should be applauded generously but to the point of denying the role of genetic heritage, which I naturally cannot accept. I also loved the text on theTrials, to which Yvonne gives the spiritual meaning of "proof that God loves us" and in which she makes the notion of compassion resound, the power of consolation, the need to "live next to the other, to listen to him, to love him, to understand him," the power that can bring "hope, the source of life, at every second." What doctor would not recognize himself in these values, as fundamental as the progress of pharmacology? Yvonne also becomes an artist when she talks about beauty and we will not be surprised to hear her say: "Love is beauty itself" or "The beauty we seek in a human being is first and foremost heat that emanates from him." The discourse onWisdommore problematic to me is because I want to hear that the humble and the poor of spirit are the owners of the kingdom of heaven, but I do not see

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